Science Funding & Policy

Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19t...

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has...

The United States has long recognized that the nation's prosperity and security depend on how we address challenges of disasters, poverty, famine, ...

Recognized as early as 1948, the right to benefit from progress in science and its applications (known more succinctly as the right to science) has...

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...

On May 23, 2012, the Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding convened a workshop at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to inv...

On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore t...

The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with vario...

Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenge...

This innovative interdisciplinary collection confronts the worldwide challenge of women's under-representation in science through an interrogation ...

Current universities are equipped with communication, marketing and PR departments. They are also furnished with research integrity officers and fo...

This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critica...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

A book on queer themes and science communication is timely, if not well overdue. LGBTIQA+ people have unique contributions to make and issues to ...

Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individua...

The National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, established in 2019, has taken on an important role in addressing issues...

The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, enginee...

The United States has long made substantial investments in clinical research with the goal of improving the health and well-being of our nation. Th...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a quadrennial review of its ...

Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support th...

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Bestseller Internacional Una [crítica] elocuente, carismática e informada de un sistema corrupto.Robert F. Kennedy...

The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that set out to e...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the de...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, is a unique example of a contested emerging techn...

If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giantsApple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazonwere built from t...

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophesfrom the deva...

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for ...